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From: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
	Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
Subject: [PATCH 6/6] Add documentation for --window-memory, pack.windowMemory
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:55:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11842449521427-git-send-email-bdowning@lavos.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184244952554-git-send-email-bdowning@lavos.net>

Signed-off-by: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
---
 Documentation/config.txt           |    6 ++++++
 Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt |   11 +++++++++++
 Documentation/git-repack.txt       |   11 +++++++++++
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 4b67f0a..11b3321 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -589,6 +589,12 @@ pack.depth::
 	The maximum delta depth used by gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] when no
 	maximum depth is given on the command line. Defaults to 50.
 
+pack.windowMemory::
+	The window memory size limit used by gitlink:git-pack-objects[1]
+	when no limit is given on the command line.  The value can be
+	suffixed with "k", "m", or "g".  Defaults to 0, meaning no
+	limit.
+
 pack.compression::
 	An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects
 	in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index e3549b5..6f17cff 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -85,6 +85,17 @@ base-name::
 	times to get to the necessary object.
 	The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50.
 
+--window-memory=[N]::
+	This option provides an additional limit on top of `--window`;
+	the window size will dynamically scale down so as to not take
+	up more than N bytes in memory.  This is useful in
+	repositories with a mix of large and small objects to not run
+	out of memory with a large window, but still be able to take
+	advantage of the large window for the smaller objects.  The
+	size can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g".
+	`--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited, which is the
+	default.
+
 --max-pack-size=<n>::
 	Maximum size of each output packfile, expressed in MiB.
 	If specified,  multiple packfiles may be created.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
index 2894939..5283ef8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
@@ -68,6 +68,17 @@ OPTIONS
 	to be applied that many times to get to the necessary object.
 	The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50.
 
+--window-memory=[N]::
+	This option provides an additional limit on top of `--window`;
+	the window size will dynamically scale down so as to not take
+	up more than N bytes in memory.  This is useful in
+	repositories with a mix of large and small objects to not run
+	out of memory with a large window, but still be able to take
+	advantage of the large window for the smaller objects.  The
+	size can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g".
+	`--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited, which is the
+	default.
+
 --max-pack-size=<n>::
 	Maximum size of each output packfile, expressed in MiB.
 	If specified,  multiple packfiles may be created.
-- 
1.5.2.GIT

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-12 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-12 12:55 [PATCH 0/6] Pack window memory limit, take 2 Brian Downing
2007-07-12 12:55 ` [PATCH 1/6] Don't try to delta if target is much smaller than source Brian Downing
2007-07-12 12:55 ` [PATCH 2/6] Support fetching the memory usage of a delta index Brian Downing
2007-07-12 12:55 ` [PATCH 3/6] Add functions for parsing integers with size suffixes Brian Downing
2007-07-12 13:07   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-12 13:32     ` [PATCH] " Brian Downing
2007-07-12 12:55 ` [PATCH 4/6] Add pack-objects window memory usage limit Brian Downing
2007-07-12 13:04   ` Brian Downing
2007-07-12 13:07     ` [PATCH] " Brian Downing
2007-07-12 12:55 ` [PATCH 5/6] Add --window-memory option to git-repack Brian Downing
2007-07-12 12:55 ` Brian Downing [this message]
2007-07-12 15:46 ` [PATCH 0/6] Pack window memory limit, take 2 Nicolas Pitre
2007-07-13 18:23 ` Junio C Hamano

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